Quote from: Hound on November 27, 2019, 08:44:42 AMQuote from: Beffs on November 26, 2019, 07:23:13 PMQuote from: Esmarelda on November 26, 2019, 03:55:40 PMQuote from: Beffs on November 26, 2019, 02:21:44 PMI don't think the GPA ever pretended to have anything to do with anything other than intercounty players.
Paul Flynn really can't be the sharpest knife in the drawer if he can't see how flying dozens and dozens of people over to the US every year looks terrible, when there are clubhouses up & down the country without running water, hot showers, proper dressing rooms, enough equipment etc etc
All Star trips and the annual team holiday for AI winners are one thing. I don't think anyone has a problem with them. At least I don't. But spending truck loads of money on junkets (with loads of hangers on) to play a bastardized version of hurling that serves no purpose whatsoever, does not sit well with people.
The money could be better spent elsewhere, whether it's their own money, the GAA's or the sponsors. If he can't see that, it's a damming inditement of just how out of touch with reality he & the rest of the GPA are.
I know that.
But the wider population are ordinary rank and file GAA club members. They are the ones who see how hard life is at grass roots level. They are the ones who have a problem with all these US junkets & they are the people Paul Flynn doesn't seem to understand having a problem.
Fair play for admitting that Beffs. It's plain old mindless begrudgery! Who do these fookers think they are swanning off to New York where Irish Americans give give them a load of dosh.
Instead what should be done, is a random draw among all club members where 60 players from around the country are picked to go to the US to play a match where the yanks can pay $80 a ticket and thousands for dinner to meet these great club people.
And all the excess proceeds can go to the list of clubs that Beffs is going to tell us about that don't even have running water.
What a marvellous idea. I'm sure it's a winner.
It is amazing how begrudgery makes people forget to switch on their brains
I don't think anyone has an issue with IC players travelling and playing the exhibition games.
It's more than people in the travelling party who don't seem to have a particular reason for being there - see my previous post.